Ms. Thapar, a qualified Chartered Accountant, has over 29 years of extensive knowledge and experience in the fields of Statutory and Internal Audits, Bank Audits, Government Audits, Information Systems Audit, Consultancy in Company Law, Indirect Taxes, FEMA and RBI Matters with an ability to handle complex and challenging assignments in the field of Audit, Taxation and International Taxation as a Senior Partner in the firm, M/s. V K Thapar and Company, a well recognised Chartered Accountants firm established in 1965, which she had joined in April 1996, after completing her training with Price WaterHouse.
She is currently an Independent Director on the Board of Directors of Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited and SJS Enterprises Ltd, both listed companies; an Independent Director on the board of Monedo Financial Services Private Limited, a base layer NBFC and RVR Corporate Consultancy Pvt Ltd., a Management Consultancy Firm in Practice in Corporation form and is a member on the Board of Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority appointed through the order of the Central Government.
She has been an Independent Director on the Boards of Bank of India for two terms, HLS Asia Limited and Yokogawa India Limited, both Public Limited Companies and has been a member on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs also for two terms. She has the experience of chairing the Audit Committee of the Board, Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, Nomination and Remuneration Committee and the Risk Committee across various boards and has been a member of other Committees of the Board, viz. Monitoring of Large Value Frauds Committee, Committee of Directors for Customer Service, IT Strategy and Digital Payment Promotion Committee, Share Transfers Committee, Stakeholders Committee, Group Governance Committee, Committee for Non Cooperative Borrowers, Disciplinary Proceedings Committee, Steering Committee of the Board on HR.
She has excellent communication skills and has been a speaker at various forums and a part of various round table and fire side deliberations, covering topics related to Indian Banks, their challenges, solutions and way forward; Reforming Financial Institutions, preparing NBFCs for Future Challenge; Employability Matrix and Skilling New India; Roadmap for $5 Trillion Economy; Technology & Ease of Living in Urban India; Challenges to brick and mortar in an online model; Auditors contribution to the financial sector and economy as a whole; Chartered Accountants Profession in the Artificial Intelligence Era; Role of Independent Directors; Presence and upliftment of women in board positions; Work life balance for women among other related areas with a firm conviction that learning is a continuous process and imagination and creativity have no boundaries while endorsing responsible adaptability and compliance.
Ms. Thapar is a qualified Chartered Accountant, a Cost Accountant from ICMA, a qualified Certified Information Systems Auditor from ISACA (USA) and a qualified Diploma holder in Information Systems Audit from ICAI. She is a certificate holder in International Taxation from ICAI, she has completed the certificate programme in IT and Cyber Security for Board Members from the IDRBT, has successfully completed the Online Proficiency Self-Assessment Test for Independent Director’s Database from IICA, a certification in the IICA Valuation Certificate Programme from IICA, and has a certification of successfully completing the Directors Development Program from Harvard Business Publishing and EgonZehnder.
